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Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Jackson, MS

December 23, 2002Hinds County, Rankin County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this flash flood warning at Dec 23, 2002, 11:22 PM CST for Hinds County, Rankin County, Mississippi. It was in force for 113 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Dec 23, 2002, 11:22 PM CST (05:22 UTC)
Expired: Dec 24, 2002, 1:15 AM CST
In force: 113 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Hinds County, MS, Rankin County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 17 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 588 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 285 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 398 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KJAN 240522
FFWJAN
MSC049-121-240715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1117 PM CST MON DEC 23 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  HINDS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
  RANKIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 115 AM CST

* AT 1117 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS MUCH OF HINDS AND 
RANKIN COUNTIES.  THE STORMS SHOULD CONTINUE TO TRAIN ACROSS THE 
SAME AREA FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. 

RADAR ESTIMATED THAT RAINFALL OF ONE AND A HALF TO 2 INCHES HAS 
ALREADY FALLEN FROM SOUTHEAST HINDS COUNTY TO CENTRAL RANKIN 
COUNTY.  ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES IS POSSIBLE IN THE NEXT 2 HOURS.  

HINDS EOC REPORTED FLOODING IN TERRY...AND HAM RADIO SPOTTERS 
REPORTED STREET FLOODING IN BRANDON.  

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.

LAT...LON 3243 9058 3207 9069 3209 8975 3256 8979
          3238 9008 3244 9034

$$ 

CRAVEN

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS74 KJAN 240655
FFSJAN
MSC049-121-240750-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1251 AM CST TUE DEC 24 2002

FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 115 AM CST FOR...

HINDS COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI
RANKIN COUNTY IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL LIKELY BE EXTENDED AS RAIN AND 
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PERSIST FOR A FEW MORE HOURS.  ANOTHER 
ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH RAINFALL OF 1 TO 1.5 INCHES PER HOUR 
SHOULD MOVE ACROSS HINDS COUNTY FROM UTICA TO JACKSON IN THE NEXT 
COUPLE OF HOURS.

BRANDON EOC REPORTED FLOODED HOMES IN THE BRADFORD AND WESTWIND 
SUBDIVISIONS AT 1230 AM CST.

$$

CRAVEN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 23, 8:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lamar	28 min
Dec 23, 8:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest	30 min
Dec 23, 9:05 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Bolivar, Carroll, Grenada, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena and 7 more	6 hr
Dec 23, 9:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Yazoo	43 min
Dec 23, 10:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	29 min
Dec 23, 11:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Neshoba, Newton	30 min
Dec 24, 12:31 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Adams, Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson	3 hr
Dec 24, 12:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lamar, Marion	29 min
Dec 24, 12:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest	39 min
Dec 24, 1:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Adams	38 min
Dec 24, 1:20 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	3 hr
Dec 24, 1:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah, Lincoln	28 min
Dec 24, 1:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	31 min
Dec 24, 1:42 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	Forrest, Jones, Lamar, Marion	4 hr
Dec 24, 1:42 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Claiborne, Jefferson	28 min
Dec 24, 1:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Simpson	30 min
Dec 24, 1:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Franklin	35 min
Dec 24, 2:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Copiah	33 min
Dec 24, 2:06 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	39 min
Dec 24, 2:10 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest	40 min
Dec 24, 2:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lincoln	38 min
Dec 24, 2:26 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Clarke	29 min
Dec 24, 2:32 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds	33 min
Dec 24, 2:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin, Simpson	32 min
Dec 24, 2:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jones	30 min
Dec 24, 2:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Lawrence	30 min
Dec 24, 2:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis	31 min
Dec 24, 2:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	17 min
Dec 24, 3:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Covington, Smith	29 min
Dec 24, 3:18 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Marion	32 min
Dec 24, 3:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Jasper, Jones	30 min
Dec 24, 3:36 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	39 min
Dec 24, 3:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke	42 min
Dec 24, 3:59 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest	21 min
Dec 24, 4:02 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest	18 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.